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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

E. CULVER, OF SHELBURNE FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND R. N. FIFE, OF SAME PLACE.

TABLE AND CLOTHES-DRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 24,694, dated July 5, 1859.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, E. CULVER, of Shelburne Falls, in the county of Franklin and State of Massachusetts, have invented a Compound Table and Clothes- Drier, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure l, is a perspective view of the table and clothes drier ready for use; Fig. 2, a view showing the top of the table raised and the drier folded up and packed within it.

My invention consists in a table with a hinged top and having a clothes drier so connected therewith, that when required for use the drier may be unfolded, and when not in use may be folded up and stowed within the table as will now be more fully described.

The clothes drier A, which is hinged to the rear of the table at b, is seen unfolded in Fig. l, bot-h the table and the drier being ready for use the latter being supported in the required position, by the blocks f.

l/Vhen the drier is no longer required for use the side panels B, and C, are folded upon the center anel D. The whole is then folded upon the hinges, g, and the rear panel upon the hinfres 71 so that the entire drier may be stowed. away within the body of the table, (as in Fig. 2,) where it is concealed and kept free from dust by the closing of the table top.

It is manifest that a clothes drier thus arranged will require no room in the laundry for its accommodation, and that it will be preserved free from dust not requiring to be wiped off before it is used.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- Y The within described combination of ironing table and clothes drier, the table furnishing a support to the drier and a receptacle in which it may be stowed away as set forth.

E. CULVER. Witnesses ARTHUR MAXWELL,

R. WHITE. 

